Drugs.ie winners pick up awards

THE winners of the Drugs.ie

‘Let’s Talk About Drugs’ Media Awards 2015 were announced last week at an awards ceremony in the Department of Education Clock Tower Building on Marlborough Street.

Organised by the Ana Liffey Drug Project’s Drugs.ie initiative, the awards were created to encourage the journalists, reporters, film enthusiasts and animators of tomorrow to start writing and talking about the drugs and alcohol issue in Ireland today.

Speaking at the event Minister of State with responsibility for the National Drug Strategy, Aodhán � Ríordáin, said:

“You have been handed down a country with a drug problem and you have been handed down a country with a drink problem and that wasn’t your fault.

“But you have a great opportunity to teach people older than you that you want a different and better country to hand down to your children.

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Special guests Ciaran Darcy (Irish Times) and Ciara Kelly (Operation Transformation, Newstalk, Sunday Independent) were in attendance to hand out the prizes alongside Nicki Kileen of the Ana Liffey Drug Project.

The overall winners, Blaze Youth Club from Sligo, were chosen from the category winners and they were presented with a trophy and cheque for

?¬2,000 from Ruairi McKiernan (founder of youth website SpunOut.ie, campaigner, writer, speaker, and Presidential appointee to Ireland’s Council of State).